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When USAir Flight 427 plunged from the sky on Sept. 8, none of the 127 passengers or five crew members survived to help explain what might have triggered the 6,000-ft. nose dive. Nor have investigators found evidence of wing, rudder or engine failure in the charred rubble of the 737 jet. That leaves little to explain the tragedy except a "bump" -- a sudden airspeed increase detected by the plane's flight-data recorder. Wind has been ruled out, since only a 7-m.p.h. breeze was evident that evening. And earlier reports of the cry "Traffic!" on the cockpit...
...Marais (played by Depardieu's son, Guillaume) shows up on Sainte Colombe's doorstep asking to be his student, Guillaume Depardieu possesses an angelic beauty and the camera dots generously on his face, studying it and worshipping it. His square jaw is offset by soft, plump lips, a long nose, and a lion's golden mane that cascades around his face like honey. He is able to be at once fey and masculine, crude and innocent. Few actors' looks are so captivating that all they have to do in a scene is give a certain stare while being magnetic...
Then last week the ruble, which had begun to slip in September, nose-dived in three hours of panicky trading, from 3,081 to the dollar to 3,900, as money dealers rushed to rid themselves of the currency. Ordinary folk joined the traders in bailing out, queuing up in front of street-corner exchange offices to offer bundles of rubles for dollars or deutsche marks. Shopkeepers shuttered their premises to mark up prices on par with the currency slump, and lines formed at gas stations as motorists tried to fill up their tanks before prices rose. By nightfall...
...viewed the episode as a characteristic case of arrogance within the agency's Directorate of Operations, the branch in charge of covert missions. And, said a White House official, "What we can't understand is why Woolsey keeps loyally defending an operations directorate that keeps thumbing its nose at him. He needs to clean house." Critics will gain ammunition from the fresh details contained in classified documents. Among them...
...Haitians, such abuses under the nose of the Americans who had come to rescue them were a shocking dose of the treatment they have endured ever since the 1991 coup forced Aristide from power. As the U.S. soldiers watched and did nothing, Haitian onlookers became increasingly perplexed and hostile. "I know you guys are working hard," shouted one man to troops sitting on a wall. "But people here are suffering." The inaction only heightened the suspicion of collusion. "How could the United States be so stupid?" another demanded. "For months you call these men thugs, murderers, thieves and drug dealers...